Season starts in ten days
| MARQUETTE, Mich. — The NMU lacrosse team has been selected to finish second in this season’s coaches’ preseason poll. 2026 GLIAC Women’s Lacrosse Coaches’ Preseason Poll 1. Grand Valley State 16 (4) 2. Northern Michigan 13 (1) 3. Concordia-St. Paul 10 4. Davenport 7 5. Saginaw Valley State 4 The Wildcats begin the season with a homestand, where the Wildcats play four home games in the latter half of February before starting a long stretch that sees the ‘Cats play seven of the next eight games on the road. The Wildcats begin GLIAC conference play amid that stretch, with the lone home game in those eight coming against Saginaw Valley to kick off the conference schedule. The regular season runs through the end of April, with the conference postseason beginning May 1, 2026. Head coach Lindsey (LeMay) Majkrzak returns to the helm for her seventh season as head coach of the Wildcats, holding a 53-39 record as head coach for the ‘Cats. The 2023 GLIAC Coach of the Year has led the Wildcats to three consecutive conference championship game appearances and 11+ win seasons. Assistant coach Quinn Crandall also returns for the ‘Cats and will embark on her fourth season. The Wildcats have key returners, but none more important than junior Josie Lakosky. Lakosky was named the GLIAC Freshman of the Year in 2023 and GLIAC Attacker of the Year in 2025 to go along with first-team all-conference honors. Lakosky had a record-breaking season for the Wildcats in 2025, setting career-highs in almost every statistical category in fewer games played, and breaking the NMU single-game point record twice in a three-game stretch. The attacker earned GLIAC weekly honors four times last season and was named the IWLCA National Co-Offensive Player of the Week thanks to her 13-point outing, which ranked just two points behind the highest single-game point total in all of DII women’s lacrosse that season. Across all competitions in 2025, Lakosky paced the conference in goals (66), goals per game (3.88), points (85), points per game (5.00), shots (161), shots per game (9.47), was second in draw controls (75) and draw controls per game (4.41), and third in total assists (19). Among conference-only statistics, Lakosky led the GLIAC in goals per game (3.63), shots (87), and shots per game (10.88). Katelyn Wozney, a 2025 All-GLIAC First-Team selection, was honored as the NMU Female Newcomer of the Year at the 2025 Wildcat Awards. As a freshman, Wozney was an integral part of the Wildcats’ faceoff scheme; the Wildcats led the conference in draw controls a season ago, with a major part of that success running through Wozney, as she was third in the conference in individual draw controls. A breakthrough athlete or the Wildcats a season ago, Sophie Langsdale earned her first All-GLIAC honor, earning a spot on the honorable mention team. Langsdale played a crucial role in the midfield last year, as she was one of just four Wildcats to have double digits in both ground balls and caused turnovers, and was the only other Wildcat not named Josie Lakosky to have double-digit goals and points to go along with the double-digit ground balls and caused turnovers. 2026 Schedule Release The Wildcats start the season with five straight home contests, hosting Calvin University and Northwood for the first time in program history on February 13 and 15, followed by McKendree and UW-Stout on February 19 and 21, and ending with Lewis on February 22. The ‘Cats first road games come during spring break, when the team travels to Colorado to take on Colorado Mesa, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and Regis University. The Mavericks made it to the RMAC Championship as the number one seed in the conference last season, where they lost to nationally ranked Regis. Colorado-Springs lost to Regis in the first round of the RMAC postseason after going 9-6, including a win over GLIAC foe Davenport to open the season. Regis ended the season with the No. 14 ranking in Division II at the end of the year, in a season that included an RMAC Championship and a first-round win in the NCAA Tournament. The team stays on the road the following weekend, competing against DII powerhouses Ashland and the University of Indianapolis. Both teams claimed their respective postseason conference championships last year and earned NCAA Tournament appearances. The conference schedule then begins, starting with Saginaw Valley at home on March 20. After a trip to the lower peninsula to face Grand Valley and Davenport, the Wildcats close out the regular season home schedule with three straight matches in two weeks, starting with Concordia-St. Paul on April 4 before closing out with Davenport and Grand Valley on April 10 and 12. The regular season ends with two games in two weeks, starting with a contest against Saginaw Valley on April 19 before ending with Concordia-St. Paul, a week later, on April 25. The GLIAC postseason tournament is slated to begin the following weekend, starting on May 1. |
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